Changing minds
Subtitle: religion and cognition through the ages
By: edited by István Czachesz and Tamás Biró
Series: Groningen studies in cultural change -- Volume 42; Groningen studies in cultural change -- v. 42.
Publisher: Peeters
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Leuven; Walpole, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 241
ISBN-13: 9789042925533
Subjects: Religious Psychology; Religion and science; Cognition and culture; Psychology and religion; Congresses
Other titles: Religion and cognition through the ages
Notes: Papers presented at a international workshop held in Gröningen, Germany, 2006.

Research report.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction  -- Istavan Czachesz and Tamas Biro; title: Religious universals and religious variation  -- Harvey Whitehouse; title: Reduction and explanatory pluralism in teh cognitive science of religion  -- Ilkka Pyysianen; title: Cognitive and cultural perspecitves on language  -- John Nerbonne; title: Meaningful meaning: chagning elations between science and religion  -- Fred Keijzer; title: The wondering brain: dreaming, religion and cognitive science  -- Kelly Bulkeley; title: Cognitive analysis of faith and christological change: contribution to a psychology of early Christian religion  -- Gerd Theissen; title: Towards a cognitive history of early Christian rituals  -- Risto Uro; title: Women, charity and mobility in early Christianity: weak links and the historical transformation of religions  -- Istavan Czachesz; title: Optimal religion: optimality theory accounts for ritual dynamics  -- Tamas Biro; title: Firewalking in the Balkans: 'high-arousal' rituals and memory -- Dimitris Xygalatas.